Review Summary

Ed Stoppard plays Misha, a Moscow filmmaker and advertising wizard seeking a partnership in the agency of his manipulative mentor, Bob Gibbons (Jeffrey Tambor), without success. A refreshingly spirited Leelee Sobieski portrays Bob’s daughter, Abby, who has ambitions to be Misha’s partner in an agency and in bed. While they canoodle, a marketing mogul (Max von Sydow) in Polynesia plots a scheme to help a fast-food chain conquer Russia. But divinity — in the form of a cow constellation — intervenes, and Misha acquires the ability to see brands as organic forms, attached like billowing, computer-generated cancers to their human hosts. Misha must end the madness, but not before a corporate conflagration of cheesy digital effects rages over the Moscow skyline. — Andy Webster